Journal of Language and Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Language and Politics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
(De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis42
News on fake news27
Limits, frontiers, antagonism27
Review of Shi-xu (2024): The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies23
How quotation marks do mockery in online politicized discourse18
Utopia, war, and justice14
Shaping gender policies at the COPs12
Review of House & Kádár (2025): Language and Politics: A Cross-cultural Pragmatic Perspective12
A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments11
Critical junctures beyond the black box11
Review of Howard (2023): Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, Politics, Power8
Demarcating rights in divided social worlds8
Attack of the critics8
“You are fake news”7
Review of Price & Harbisher (2021): Power, Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Framing Public Discourse7
Review of Demata (2023): Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-historical Analysis7
Serbian Progressive Party’s shameless normalization of expressing sycophancy toward the leader7
Perception of charisma in text and speech7
Review of Lütge, Merse & Rauschert (2022): Global Citizenship in Foreign Language Education: Concepts, Practices, Connections7
“The rock of stability?”6
Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’6
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Setting boundaries between crime and rights6
Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South6
Review of Butler (2024): Political Discourse Analysis: Legitimization Strategies in Crisis and Conflict6
Review of Fotiadou (2022): The Language of Employability: A Corpus-Based Analysis of UK University Websites6
Equivocation in media communication6
Metalinguistic tactics in the Hong Kong protest movement6
“These are not just slogans”5
Review of Chiluwa (2021): Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-building5
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The discursive representation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Austrian news coverage: 2010–2015–20205
Visions of the good future5
Romania’s first female prime minister’s meme-ification5
Enemy narratives5
Review of Jones (2021): Viral Discourse5
Multimodality as civic participation5
Examining political influence on language5
Constitutive representation of womanhood5
Reimagining Europe and its (dis)integration4
A fence of opportunity4
The (anti-)political logic of authoritarian institutionalism4
The rise of the new Polish far-right4
‘If you see [blank], say [blank]’4
From Barack Obama to Donald Trump4
The aesthetic values of the semiotic choices in Arab protests4
Discourse theory and the turn to practice4
Review of Seargeant (2024): The future of language: How technology, politics and utopianism are transforming the way we communicate3
The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados’ prime minister Mia Mottley3
From controversy to common ground3
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Rhetorical (ir)responsibility in the Australian Parliament3
Review of Knoblock (2020): Language of Conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian Crisis3
Negotiating trust through COVID-19 press briefings3
From more to less ‘Civil’ borderline discourses in mainstream media and government3
Review of Caimotto & Raus (2023): Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-shaping of Ideological Discourse3
Navigating the ideological tide3
Review of Nartey (2022): Political Myth-making, Populist Performance and Nationalist Resistance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction of the African Unity Dream3
The construction and legitimation of Elisa Loncón as a Mapuche female political leader on Instagram3
Farmers as symbol of ‘the people’3
Review of Closs Stephens (2022): National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political3
“Hope dies – Action begins”2
Subverting EU legal concepts2
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Review of Arnall & Chenoweth (2025): Universality and Translation: Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics2
Reporting the others’ speech, uncovering China’s world dream2
“We pursue justice”2
Review of Chun (2022): Applied Linguistics and Politics2
Widening the North/South Divide? Representations of the role of the EU during the Covid-19 crisis in Spanish media2
Review of Stavrakakis (2024): Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research2
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Review of Handford & Gee (2023): The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis2
On the language of liberalism2
Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change2
Discourses on gender in climate change adaptation projects of Bangladesh2
The politics of fear in Hong Kong protest representations2
Gender, language, and representation in the United States Senate1
“Türkiye,” not “Turkey”1
Radical Right-Wing Populism and Borders1
Review of Stefanie (2021): Discourses of the Arab revolutions in media and politics1
Language, Politics and Media1
France’s “drôle de guerre”1
Populist radical right beyond Europe1
The arrival of the populist radical right in Chile1
New opportunities for discourse studies1
Review of Russell (2024): Fighting Words: A Critical Approach to Linguistic Transgression1
Review of Li, Lui & Fung (2020): Systemic functional political discourse: A text-based study1
Return migrants from the United States to Mexico1
Entrepreneur or capitalist?1
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Review of Feldman (2020): The Rhetoric of Political Leadership: Logic, and Emotion in Public Discourse1
Review of Ilie (2024): Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis1
‘They will not survive here’1
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Media portrayals of the Hong Kong Occupy Central Movement’s social actors1
Review of Statham (2022): Critical discourse analysis: A practical introduction to power in language1
Review of Musolff & Breeze (2022): Pandemic and Crisis Discourse Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy1
Review of Romano (2024): Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts1
Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide in the Italian online press1
Linguistic landscapes of activism1
Review of Carpentier & Wimmer (2025): Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach1
The utility of (political) dogwhistles – a life cycle perspective1
Jair Bolsonaro and the defining attributes of the populist radical right in Brazil1
Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice1
Mass identifications and mythical violence1
Sailing toIthaka1
The populist radical right in Australia1
Politician, activist… or hero?1
The static welfare claimant vs. the dynamic migrant1
Far-right discourse in Brazil1
A topic modeling-assisted diachronic study of “One Country, Two Systems” represented in Anglo-American newspapers1
Polarising metaphors in the Venezuelan Presidential Crisis1
Review of Guenther (2024): The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It1
The groundwork of Putin’s war1
Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South0
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When in parliamentary debate there is no debate0
Doing gender at the far right0
Review of Demasi, Burke & Tileagă (2021): Political communication: Discursive perspectives0
Review of Bielsa (2023): A Translational Sociology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Politics and Society0
Borderless fear?0
Review of Feng (2023): Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Understanding Communication and Society in Contemporary China0
Review of Augé (2023): Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse0
BIOMETRIC CITIZENS in smart cities0
Review of Parnell (2024): Constructing Brexit Britain: A Corpus-Assisted Approach to National Identity Discourse0
The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians0
Review of Baker, Vessey & McEnery (2021): The Language of Violent Jihad0
Review of Cheng & Machin (2023): The law and critical discourse studies0
Dimensions of time and space in narratives for climate action0
Emergent Twitter publics through political scandal0
Review of Waring & Tadic (2024): Critical Conversation Analysis: Inequality and Injustice in Talk-in-Interaction0
“The youths are wiser now”0
Review of Rajandran & Lee (2023): Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia: Legitimising Governance0
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“A massive field of action”0
Of infiltrators and wild beasts0
Capturing power in diplomatic language use0
Review of Catalano & Waugh (2020): Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond0
Beyond the law0
Review of Stibbe (2024): Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By0
Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice0
Review of Van Dijk (2024): Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right0
ICT environmentalism and the sustainability game0
Review of Fariña (2023): Psychological Borders in Europe and the United States: Contemporary Nationalism, Nativism, and Populism0
Review of Serafis (2023): Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal Discourse and Argumentation in Times of Multiple Crises in Greece0
Language and culture wars0
Political homophobia0
The Tennessee three0
Review of Korhonen, Kotze & Tyrkkö (2023): Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary Discourse Across Time and Space0
“First forced displacements, then slaughter”0
Disalignment in the EU0
Attitudinal stance towards the anti-extradition bill movement in China Daily and South China Morning Post0
“Does being pretty help?”0
Mearsheimer, Putin, ideology, and the war in Ukraine0
Review of Baysha (2022): War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine0
Discourse of self-legitimation0
From social awareness to authoritarian other0
Exploring the evolution of the concept of liberty in the U.S. presidential inaugurals0
Supplementing the tropes0
Framing the political conflict discourse in Chinese media0
Reactions to interruptions in Finnish, French and German parliamentary debates0
Review of Pennycook (2021): Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Reintroduction0
Review of Íñigo-Mora & Lastres-López (2024): Discourse Approaches to an Emerging Age of Populist Politics0
The representation of migrant identities in UK Government documents about Brexit0
Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore0
Social media, politics, and the rise of the anti-refugee far-right in Turkey0
Reverberations0
“Britain was already cherry-picking from the European tree without bothering to water the soil or tend to its branches”0
Border-making as illiberal politics0
When performance studies meet discourse theory0
Revisiting the rhetorical construction of political consent0
Commemoration and radical right-wing populism in European borderlands0
“Serial rorters or mere mortals?” Gendered mediation in comments to newspapers about how male and female government leaders handle money0
Review of Koller (2023): Voices of Supporters: Populist Parties, Social Media and the 2019 European Elections0
Inside the echo chamber0
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Revealing China’s diplomatic narratives of the Belt and Road Initiative0
Surprises, symbols, and mainstreaming0
Review of Deringer & Ströbel (2022): International Discourses of Authoritarian Populism: Varieties and Approaches0
The construction of Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” in China Daily0
“There is new technology here that can perform miracles”0
Review of Fetzer & Weizman (2019): The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres0
Temporal agency of social movements0
Review of Yu (2022): Moral Metaphor System: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach0
Cultivation of sustainability in a discourse of change0
Review of Stavrakakis & Katsambekis (2024): Research Handbook on Populism0
Review of Forchtner (2023): Visualising far-right environments: Communication and the politics of nature0
The power of language0
Review of van Dijk (2024): Social movement discourse: An introduction0
Symbolic-descriptive representation in the Chilean Constitutional Convention0
“We shall not flag or fail, we shall go on to the end”0
Community organising and radical democracy0
Populating ‘solidarity’ in political debate0
When pro-vaccine media discourses meet vaccine hesitancy0
Review of Akbari (2020): Iran’s Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations: Persian Terminology Planning0
Review of Tachtiris (2024): Translation and race0
What’s in a name?0
Moral panic and (in)security0
Interests convergence in global human rights politics0
The populist radical right beyond Europe0
Review of Charteris-Black (2020): Metaphors of Coronavirus0
Review of Chambers & Demir (2024): Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches0
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)0
Review of Matthiessen, Wang, Ma & Mwinlaaru (2022): Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics0
Fighting talk0
Review of Wachowski & Sullivan (2022): Metonymies and Metaphors for Death Around the World0
“Almost a mother tongue”0
Discourses of Fake News0
Review of Almanna & House (2023): Translation Politicised and Politics Translated0
Review of Wodak & Forchtner (2021): The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics0
Humanitarian discourse as racism disclaimer0
The European migrant crisis in Polish parliamentary discourse0
From “them” to “us”?0
A Europeanisation of American politics?0
Legitimizing the interventions recommended in “European Research Area Policy Agenda 2022–2024”0
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A meaningless buzzword or a meaningful label? How do Spanish politicians usepopulismoandpopulistaon Twitter?0
Legitimation in revolutionary discourse0
Anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, and human-orientation in environmental discourse0
The good, the bad, and the ugly0
Discourse and transformation0
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Integrating CDA with ideological rhetorical criticism in the investigation of Abe Cabinet’s discursive construction in “Indo-Pacific Strategy”0
Review of Wu (2023): Media Representations of Macau’s Gaming Industry in Greater China: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis0
Review of Zottola (2021): Transgender Identities in the Press: A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis0
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The delegitimisation of Europe in a pro-European country0
Unveiling ideological shifts in news trans‑editing0
Epistemic stance and public discourse on irregular migration in one of Europe’s outermost regions0
Review of van Dijk (2021): Antiracist Discourse in Brazil: From Abolition to Affirmative Action0
Review of Al-Shboul (2023): The Politics in Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective0
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Positioning antagonistic discourses in the (de)bounded spaces of power0
Review of Li & Hu (2021): Reappraising Self and Others: A Corpus-based Study of Chinese Political Discourse in English Translation0
Populism and contingency0
In the name of the nobility of the cause, what I did is right0
Review of Feldman (2021): When Politicians Talk: The Cultural Dynamics of Public Speaking0
The use of metaphors to construct crisis discourses in describing COVID-19 vaccines in the Chinese and the American news media0
Policy discourse in times of crisis0
De/legitimising EUrope through the performance of crises0
Review of Ajšić (2021): Language and Ethnonationalism in Contemporary West Central Balkans: A Corpus-based Approach0
Studying affect through discourse theory0
Taking the left way out of Europe0
“We” in the EU: (De) legitimizing power relations and status0
National identity revisited0
Discourse Theory and Strategic Communication0
Right-wing populist media events in Schengen Europe0
The awkward rhetoric of Spanish liberalism0
Activism or slacktivism?0
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